Fredrock silently crushes the last hulk, then shifts back from the bridge, but staying close to the Raven swarm.

Livia fires a shot into the middle of a cloud of ravens. Although only a single bird falls, the rest of the group's flying becomes strangely erratic.

Letting his comrades take care of the other swarm Kaz turns his attention to the one cloest to him. I shall bring you to your eternal rest, abomination against Mireva! Kaz says slashing the ravens with his giant axe.

Gurk sees the swarm of ravens fluttering about him, but decides that a greater challenge lies closer to the tower. Abandoning his own defense, he lauches himself over the fallen tower and towards the gathering of enemies.

Gurk easily completes the jump, landing in the middle of all his enemies. Though he has been fighting for some time now, he attack with the same fervor as before. As he does so he makes up a little tune.

"Smash their heads!, Smash their heads!
Smash their head and make them deaaaaaad...
Again!"

Whirling death by foot and fists lashes out in all directions. He drops all the undead except one that manages to stumble out of his way. He begins pummeling the birds one by one, attempting to grab a few out of the air with his bare hands, twisting their necks and tossing them casually aside.

With one final effort he lunges in the direction of the last of the risen dead, crushing its chest with a mighty blow.

Corvus quickly steps away from the zombies closest to him, his arm throbbing in pain from the undead assault. He looks over his shoulder and Livia's presence brings some renewed vigor to the aged warrior. "C'mon Livia, let's finish them off" he points his blade at a weak spot in one of the closest zombies.

Once again her arrow flies true.

Catching his longspear as it returns to him, Yimayngurr paces back away from the swarm of "smelly crows" to set up a running attack. He then charges forward with a wild cry, impaling more of the flying carrion-eating carrion on the shaft of the lion-headed weapon.

Eithal stands up and, finding all the dead around Gurk lying in the dirt, charges into the swarm of ravens. Unfortunately she's only able to kill a couple of them as they claw and peck at her.

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The Swarms tear into Eithal and Gurk, a few diving and clawing at Kaz. Two rerisen dead charge at Yim, but he avoids them easily, while the three that come back after Gurk hammered into them paw feebly at Eithal and Gurk's feet.

Meanwhile, the last hulk just won't stay dead, rising up again after Fredrock dropped it again.

Fredrock glares at the Hulk as it stands back up, Argh, won't you just stay dead! I'll get back to you in a moment, just let me swat some of these foul birds 1st. The Hulk standing distracts Fredrock, and his hammer swings widly, missing the swarm. Fredock then shifts next to the Hulk.

Oppurunity Action: If the Swarm in H10 shifts, I will shift to H11 using Blurred Step (happens before the swarm shifts--at least for the next 30 days, as errata is changing Blurred step to a free action after they shift, and if I remember right, new content is not approved for 30 days)

Immediate Reation: If the swarm attacks someone else (and doesn't include me in the attack) and is adjacent to me at the time and does damage, it takes the damage as well (lot's of conditions on that isn't there) from Mind Spike (halved due to being a swarm)

Corvus moves to a better vantage point, looking at the minor conflagurations happening and decides that the most in need are those battling a pair of zombies and the ravens. He points to the birds and again Livia follows Corvus' direction, but the arrow passes harmlessly through the mass.

Bravura Presence
Appears in Martial Power
When an ally who can see you spends an action point to take an extra action and uses the action to make an attack, the ally can choose to take advantage of this feature before the attack roll. If the ally chooses to do so and the attack hits, the ally can either make a basic attack or take a move action after the attack as a free action. If the attack misses, the ally grants combat advantage to all enemies until the end of his or her next turn

Seeing himself surrounded by the rerisen dead, Yimayngurr scowls at the feeling of being prey rather than predator. "Think you gonna take a bite of me bones?," he taunts the zombies, "Let's see if you can catch this slippery fish... Dbbrrr!," the Rripangu-clan hunter cries, as he unleashes a flurry of speed, bringing down one of the zombies with his spear and dancing across the battlefield, pausing only to skewer a few of the ravens that are harassing Fredrock.

Livia lets loose a string of furious curses, half of them in Hzakan, as her arrow misses. She fires into the swarm again, sending ravens fluttering wildly in random directions as though something invisible is swatting at them.

actions

Standard: grappling spirits against swarm in J3. 1d20+9=17 1d12+7=12. Hit for 6, swarm is slowed and can't shift until EoNT.

Fredrock glares at the Hulk as it stands back up, Argh, won't you just stay dead! I'll get back to you in a moment, just let me swat some of these foul birds 1st. The Hulk standing distracts Fredrock, and his hammer swings widly, missing the swarm. Fredock then shifts next to the Hulk.

I will not allow you to continue, foul creature. This Himura Kazuhira swears. Kaz swiftly darts around the battlefield and swings his giant axe slicing the hulk in two.

Corvus moves to a better vantage point, looking at the minor conflagurations happening and decides that the most in need are those battling a pair of zombies and the ravens. He points to the birds and again Livia follows Corvus' direction, but the arrow passes harmlessly through the mass.

Seeing himself surrounded by the rerisen dead, Yimayngurr scowls at the feeling of being prey rather than predator. "Think you gonna take a bite of me bones?," he taunts the zombies, "Let's see if you can catch this slippery fish... Dbbrrr!," the Rripangu-clan hunter cries, as he unleashes a flurry of speed, bringing down one of the zombies with his spear and dancing across the battlefield, pausing only to skewer a few of the ravens that are harassing Fredrock.

Livia lets loose a string of furious curses, half of them in Hzakan, as her arrow misses. She fires into the swarm again, sending ravens fluttering wildly in random directions as though something invisible is swatting at them.

Gurk lashes out at the dead around him, dropping all the walking dead, though missing the mass of ravens.

Eithal draws the ire of the ravens then steps away to catch a breath.

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It seems most of the rerisen dead have finally taken enough damage that whatever necromantic energies bound them weren't enough to bring them back; only one rises back to its feet.

Meanwhile, the swarms flurry and dart around the party, harrying and dive-bombing the group with sharp beaks and claws. Dead ravens litter the ground and clouds of feathers swirl about, but for every two ravens that are dropped, one gets back up and rejoins the swarm.

Perhaps soon the dead will stay dead, but Fredrock seems a bit preoccupied with this grim business and swings wildly once again.

Mark

note that swarm 3 has been marked by me for the encounter (or until I use my Battlemind Demand again..just noticed it isn't listed in the Combatants block. Also, Fredrock is at 6 damage to start this turn..(8 after the turn)

Oppurunity Action: If the Swarm in I10 shifts, I will shift to H10 using Blurred step (happens before the swarm shifts--at least till the end of this combat.. please shift me if it shifts..i have not shifted the last two turns...it's not much, but i'd like to use the power , errata is changing Blurred step to a free action after they shift, but it won't go into effect until after this combat)

Immediate Reation: If the swarm in I10 attacks someone else (and doesn't include me in the attack) and is adjacent to me at the time and does damage, it takes the damage as well (lot's of conditions on that isn't there) from Mind Spike (halfed due to being a swarm)
(hasn't come up yet, as it shifts thru us and always includes me in the attack so far.

end the turn in the aura of two swarms, so 2 total damage (4 DR), up to 8 damage taken)

Oppurunity Action: If the Swarm in I10 shifts, I will shift to H10 using Blurred step (happens before the swarm shifts--at least till the end of this combat.. please shift me if it shifts..i have not shifted the last two turns...it's not much, but i'd like to use the power , errata is changing Blurred step to a free action after they shift, but it won't go into effect until after this combat)

note it's an OA (currently) but I get it when my mark shifts, so it breaks the rule that shifting avoids OA's